DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 16 November) — A Davao City-based movement is spearheading an online campaign to support presidential candidate Leni Robredo in the upcoming national elections. Organizers of the Davao for Leni Movement said the five-month old advocacy aims
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 06 October) – A Japanese firm engaged in the construction of bridges and renewable energy projects has partnered with the City Government of Butuan to construct a 2.5-megawatt biomass energy facility that will turn rice husks
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 20 July) – Residents here and even abroad may now witness the Sangguniang Panlungsod’s regular session every Tuesday without physically going to its session hall. The city council formally launched during its inaugural session on Tuesday the livestreaming of
THE PHILIPPINES scored 64, on a scale of 0 to 100, for transparency of eight budget documents in the latest Open Budget Survey (OBS) 2015, a report on 102 countries in the world. This piece of good news comes, however,
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/15 August) — The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) central office has adopted the Internet-based Quality Management System (IQMS) developed by its personnel in Region 12 as model for the agency’s management system. Ofelia Domingo, DOLE
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/05 November) – Computerizing records at the city’s revenue-generating agencies may be one way to prevent corruption in these offices, an official said. In an interview, City Councilor Danilo Dayanghirang, chair of the committee on finance said the
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/24 September) — The Regional Development Council (RDC) of Region 12 is targeting to complete by next month its ongoing reorganization process, an official said. Arturo Valero, acting RDC-12 chair, said they expect the formal appointment before
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/22 August)–The public should scrutinize the executive and legislative agenda (ELA) of local government units (LGUs) to promote transparency and accountability among local officials, an official of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) said. The
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/23 June) – Bayan Muna’s Carlos Isagani Zarate, a journalist before he became a lawyer in 1995 is one of at least 67 Mindanawons in the House of Representatives. In the 24-member Senate, the number of Mindanawons remains
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/09 June) – The number of women occupying top posts in Mindanao has increased from only 10 women governors, city mayors and representatives in the post-EDSA elections of 1987 and 1988 to 34 elected for the 2013-2016 term
RAJAH BUAYAN, Maguindanao (MindaNews/27 May) – If he had his way, Engr. Zamzamin Lumenda Ampatuan , the newly-elected mayor of this town, would rather be known by his first name. “Does it matter if you are an Ampatuan? Whether you
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/26 April) – Caraga region is no longer the country’s “poorest region,” a title it held in 2006 and 2009. In fact it dropped to sixth place among 17 regions in 2012, records from the National Statistical Coordination
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/26 April) – The five-province, two-city Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) posted the highest poverty incidence among families in the country’s 17 regions nationwide in 2012, with Lanao del Sur posting the highest at 68. 9% and
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/19 March) — The city government has created three new offices in a bid to improve its service delivery to residents in all 26 barangays. Mayor Darlene Antonino-Custodio said they established the city’s Waste Management Office, Office
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/29 October) — The city government has allocated some P120 million for the implementation of additional infrastructure projects, among them major drainage and flood control structures, in various parts of the city by next year. City Councilor
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews / 18 Oct) – About 700 lumad leaders attending the 1st Bukidnon Provincial Indigenous Peoples Congress signed Wednesday a resolution urging President Benigno Simeon Aquino III to give incentives to local government units with mandatory IP representatives
MADRID, Surigao del Sur (MindaNews/14 October) — Multiectoral groups all over Surigao del Sur called on voters to support in next year’s elections, candidates with clear agenda on the protection and preservation of the environment. Dr. Isidro Olan, executive director
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews / 8 Oct) – Eighteen of the 23 local government units in Bukidnon have been awarded their Bronze Seal of Good Housekeeping (SGH) for 2011 by the Department of Interior and Local Government, the most number in
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/12 September) – Former Valencia City mayor Jose M. Galario Jr. will appeal the decision of the Sandiganbayan First Division sentencing him to six years imprisonment after they found him guilty of violating Republic Act 3019 or the
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/07 August) — The Anti-Smoking Task Force (ASTF) has proposed imposing stiffer fines for violators of the comprehensive anti-smoking ordinance to attain the local government’s goal for a smoke-free city. Dr. Domilyn C. Villareiz, co-chairperson of ASTF, said
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/26 July) – From the country’s P302. 3 billion Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA) for 2013, local government units in Bukidnon will get around P4.7 billion. The amount, based on Local Budget Memorandum No. 66 dated July 2 but
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews /24 July) – Bukidnon may have been the first province in the country to comply with mandatory representation of the indigenous peoples in the municipal, city and provincial level, but such is not the case in the
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/17 July) – Only two of Bukidnon’s 20 towns and none of its two cities have completed the drafts of their revised Comprehensive Land Use Plans (CLUP) as of July 16, the Bukidnon Provincial Planning and Development Office
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/11 July) – The local government units in the province should focus on economic development and be sensitive in promoting the economy instead of politics, a business leader here said. “We don’t need mudslinging in business. The more
SURIGAO CITY (MindaNews/10 July) — Saying it would help boost the city’s capability to finance development projects, Surigao City Mayor Ernesto T. Matugas is pushing for the collection of P200,739,598. 72 million in unpaid real property taxes from the Privatization
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/25 June) – In a bid to improve local tax collections, the provincial government of South Cotabato has linked up with government-owned and controlled Philippine Veteran’s Bank (PVB) for the upgrading of its real property tax (RPT)
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/19 June) – – Four of Bukidnon’s 20 towns were among the 12 local government units in Northern Mindanao that the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) included in the Performance Challenge Fund (PCF), an incentive mechanism
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/14 June) – The provincial legislature of Maguindanao moved to its “permanent” home on Thursday, June 14 with the inauguration of a rehabilitated structure at the old Capitol compound in Simuay, Sultan Kudarat town, as its new legislative
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/14 June) – The mayor of one of the 16 new cities in the country appealed to the League of Cities of the Philippines (LCP) not to pursue its reported plan to revive a case questioning the constitutionality
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/14 June) — The commemoration of the city’s 135th founding anniversary lacked “sense of history” and understanding of the people who built the place as a settlement before the Spanish colonizers arrived, a Lumad leader today said. Umayamnon
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/14 June) — Environmental protection and ecotourism will take center stage during the 3rd Mindanao Island Congress of the Vice Mayors League of the Philippines (VMLP) next week. Preparations are now in the full swing for the event
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/25 May) – Revenue officers in North Cotabato padlocked on Thursday one of the biggest grocery centers in Midsayap town due to its alleged failure to pay taxes amounting to P6 million. Venerando Homez, head of the Bureau
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/10 May) — OIC Governor Mujiv Hataman of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) says he is “sure” that majority of the 27 persons named to the Regional Legislative Assembly (RLA) are “reform-oriented” even if the names
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 14 April) – Members of the city council here are bent on going to court if the National Power Corporation (Napocor) and other subsidiary agencies of the Philippine government refuse to dispatch 25 percent of the
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/13 April) – The City Government of Malaybalay may get close to P1 billion from the national government, if the Supreme Court decides favorably on a petition it filed along with other local government units. The amount is
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/07 April) – Only 18 of Mindanao’s 27 governors filed their Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth (SALN) in 2010 and out of the 18, Davao del Norte governor Rodolfo del Rosario has remained the richest, with
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/07 April) – Surigao City’s Ernesto Matugas is not only the richest city mayor in Mindanao among 27 of 33 city mayors who filed their Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth (SALN) as of yearend 2010, he
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/17 March) — Provincial board member Jay Albarece has proposed an ordinance granting real property tax discounts for lots with high density of trees to serve as incentive to residents who have been planting and protecting trees in
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/09 March) – With the local business scene here and in nearby areas currently “picking up,” an official of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) directed their personnel in Region 12 to intensify their crackdown against possible
SURIGAO CITY (MindaNews/10 February)–Another case has been filed before the office of the Ombudsman against Surigao City Mayor Enesto T. Matugas. For the fifth time, Matugas has been charged for illegal exaction and other corrupt practices. Charged together with the
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/08 February) — It’s 15 months before the May 13, 2013 elections but the political scene here has heated up with the filing Monday of charges of frustrated murder and attempted murder against Mayor Japal Guiani, his sister
BULUAN, Maguindanao (MindaNews/07 February) — A big Arabian corporation is coming to war-torn Maguindanao province for a business venture with a capital requirement of $20 million or roughly P855 million for the area alone, Gov. Esmael Mangudadatu disclosed on Monday.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/25 January) – The national government has released a total of P1.075 billion in cash grants last year to beneficiaries of its continuing conditional cash transfer program in Region 12 and portions of the Autonomous Region in
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/24 January)—Tax collections last year in Region 12 reached P4.4 billion, surpassing the target set for the period by 6.1%, a Bureau of Internal Revenue official said yesterday. In a statement, Rozil Lozares, BIR regional director, attributed the
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/20 January) –The provincial government of South Cotabato is expecting to generate P30 million this year from the small-scale mining industry players in the area, officials said. Gov. Arthur Pingoy Jr. said they are confident of reaching the
VALENCIA CITY (MindaNews/17 January) – The Valencia City council approved a resolution authorizing Mayor Leandro Jose Catarata to allocate P6.08 million for the urgent purchase of three water pumps to irrigate at least 700 hectares of rice farms in villages
